What is "fearsomely"

Usage examples of "fearsomely".

A gate had been unlocked--not, indeed, the Ultimate Gate, but one leading from Earth and time to that extension of Earth which is outside time, and from which in turn the Ultimate Gate leads fearsomely and perilously to the last Void which is outside all earths, all universes, and all matter.

Even their fearsomely toothed jaws had not been able completely to devour the thick rhinoceros hide, though the poachers had hacked open the belly cavities of their victims to give them easy access.

Answering bursts from fearsomely powerful arrays streaked toward the task force as spiraling golden projectiles, grotesquely beautiful against the starfield.

Master of the Darnwell Rose, bulky, with gold sleeve rings, bushily bearded, went below with Unwin to more beer in his cabin, and sent up a fearsomely tough-looking second in command to unbutton to me about Trox.

He'd ride a mop-handle horse and brandish a trashcan-lid and a batteryless plastic Light-Saber and tell the neighborhood kids he was Sir Osis of Thuliver, most fearsomely loyal and fierce of Arthur's vessels.

For all Norman Osprey's awesome strength, in retrospect it was Black-mask Four who'd scared me most, and who now, nine days later, intruded fearsomely in my dreams, nightmares in which Black-mask Four intended to throw me into the 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit of the liquid glass in the tank in the furnace.

Just as Andrea had said, the Elves had come back, fearsomely armed--and the Elves meant to smash their world like an egg, lap up all the goodness and leave them nothing but the dried, shattered bits of shell.

He goes inside, holding the door for a fearsomely brisk young woman in a quasimilitary outfit--who makes it clear that Waterhouse had better not expect to Get Anywhere just because he's holding the door for her--and then for a tired-looking septuagenarian gent with a white mustache.

As Valeria plunged into the leafy screen a backward glance showed her the Titan rearing up fearsomely on his massive hinder legs, even as Conan had predicted.

Looking into the eyes of the child who was simultaneously not‑my‑son and also more my heir than any child of my flesh could have been, I found in his empty, limpid pupils a second mirror of humility, which showed me that, from now on, mine would be as peripheral a role as that of any redundant oldster: the traditional function, perhaps, of reminiscer, of teller‑of‑tales… I wondered if all over the country the bastard sons of Shiva were exerting similar tyrannies upon hapless adults, and envisaged for the second time that tribe of fearsomely potent kiddies, growing waiting listening, rehearsing the moment when the world would become their plaything.

He surveyed their angular, uncompromising faces, all of them fearsomely painted, and he reflex-ively tensed his wrist tendons, preparing Ms hand to receive the Sin Eater.

Whatever the efficiencies of the Holy Office in Rome, the Society of Jesus had its own fearsomely effective apparatus of informers and spies, and had indeed been first on the trail of the last, albeit comical, plot to murder the pope.

Jake saw at least four more wheelchairs, most strapped to roof-racks, some stuffed into the backs of vans or station wagons, one (it looked ancient and fearsomely bulky) thrown into the bed of a pickup truck.

They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible - and as I saw them I knew also of what that humped, tiaraed priest in the black church basement had fearsomely reminded me.

They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - - living and horrible - - and as I saw them I knew also of what that humped, tiaraed priest in the black church basement had fearsomely reminded me.